Date updated:12-06-2008
An interview with Barry Ritholz: Getting ready for a "significant" rally.

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SSO
Ultra S&p500 Pros - $35.10
- +0.57%
- $34.51
Q: Given the uncertainty in the market at large, what appeals to you right now? A: We've been trading the two-to-one leveraged [exchange-traded funds]. One is the Ultra S&P ProShares [SSO] -- for every dollar the Standard & Poor's 500 moves, it moves two dollars. And there's also Ultra Triple Q ProShares [QLD], the Nasdaq 100-version of the SSO. The flip of the QLDs are the QIDs, which are the negative two-for-ones on the Nasdaq. We're starting to look at that.

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QLD
Proshares Ultra Q - $51.55
- +1.24%
- $50.50
Q: Given the uncertainty in the market at large, what appeals to you right now? A: We've been trading the two-to-one leveraged [exchange-traded funds]. One is the Ultra S&P ProShares [SSO] -- for every dollar the Standard & Poor's 500 moves, it moves two dollars. And there's also Ultra Triple Q ProShares [QLD], the Nasdaq 100-version of the SSO. The flip of the QLDs are the QIDs, which are the negative two-for-ones on the Nasdaq. We're starting to look at that.

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NUVA
Nuvasive - $36.95
- -1.18%
- $36.94
Ritholtz: We are now running about 70% cash, which is inordinately high, but some of the names we're watching, and have owned in the past, are NuVasive [NUVA], a medical-device company, Stanley Works [SWK], a great infrastructure story, LG Display [LPL] and Luminex [LMNX]. Industries we like are infrastructure, defense, biotech and medical devices.

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SWK
Stanley Works The - $49.19
- -0.87%
- $49.58
Ritholtz: We are now running about 70% cash, which is inordinately high, but some of the names we're watching, and have owned in the past, are NuVasive [NUVA], a medical-device company, Stanley Works [SWK], a great infrastructure story, LG Display [LPL] and Luminex [LMNX]. Industries we like are infrastructure, defense, biotech and medical devices.

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LPL
Lg Display Co Ltd - $12.62
- 0.00%
- $N/A
Ritholtz: We are now running about 70% cash, which is inordinately high, but some of the names we're watching, and have owned in the past, are NuVasive [NUVA], a medical-device company, Stanley Works [SWK], a great infrastructure story, LG Display [LPL] and Luminex [LMNX]. Industries we like are infrastructure, defense, biotech and medical devices.

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LMNX
Luminex Corporati - $14.20
- +4.03%
- $13.54
Ritholtz: We are now running about 70% cash, which is inordinately high, but some of the names we're watching, and have owned in the past, are NuVasive [NUVA], a medical-device company, Stanley Works [SWK], a great infrastructure story, LG Display [LPL] and Luminex [LMNX]. Industries we like are infrastructure, defense, biotech and medical devices.

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JPM
Jp Morgan Chase C - $43.48
- -0.89%
- $43.14
Q: Why ETFs? A: We're normally bottom-up stockpickers. But when we're looking at all these individual stocks and war-game them, we end up saying there's this risk and that risk. Here's an example: JPMorgan [JPM] is probably the best house in a bad neighborhood. It had a nice run, then it pulled back; do we want to own JP Morgan? What's the risk? They've already acquired Bear Stearns. They have to be looking at Goldman Sachs [GS]. They have to be looking at putting the house of Morgan back together. If that happens, what happens to the stock price of JPMorgan? You could lose 15%, 20% overnight. Every time we look at individual stocks, we end up with that analysis.

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C
Citigroup Inc - $4.06
- 0.00%
- $3.99
Q: Would you give us a name? A: Citigroup [C] at $5. The interesting thing about Citigroup is that if there's anything that's legitimately too big to fail, Citigroup is it. If you think the consumer and retail sector are having a hard time, imagine if Citigroup were allowed to go belly-up. People would hunker down in their homes and stop buying all but the necessities. I didn't really buy that Bear Stearns was too big to fail, although there was the argument that they could take JPMorgan down. Citibank is one of those things that cannot be allowed to go belly-up. It's enormous. It's the equivalent of AIG.
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